Fix comment that describes sighandler_setxid

diff --git a/nptl/ChangeLog b/nptl/ChangeLog
index b5d0d7103c709486d41bb0b82be654f654f487a4..b9a9dfb4d634692ca86a5a1dc78a815e20c3165e 100644 (file)
--- a/nptl/ChangeLog
+++ b/nptl/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-07-19  Siddhesh Poyarekar  <siddhesh@redhat.com>
+
+       * nptl-init.c (sighandler_setxid): Fix the comment that
+       describes it.
+
 2012-06-23  Thomas Schwinge  <thomas@codesourcery.com>
 
        * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/lowlevelrobustlock.S

diff --git a/nptl/nptl-init.c b/nptl/nptl-init.c
index ea3d1ec804e1a04b806d8321ec4172f7e8ca2c0f..5216ce1f5a2ff5a50a3a540e17c558e3180f61f3 100644 (file)
--- a/nptl/nptl-init.c
+++ b/nptl/nptl-init.c
@@ -229,7 +229,9 @@ sigcancel_handler (int sig, siginfo_t *si, void *ctx)
 
 struct xid_command *__xidcmd attribute_hidden;
 
-/* For asynchronous cancellation we use a signal.  This is the handler.  */
+/* We use the SIGSETXID signal in the setuid, setgid, etc. implementations to
+   tell each thread to call the respective setxid syscall on itself.  This is
+   the handler.  */
 static void
 sighandler_setxid (int sig, siginfo_t *si, void *ctx)
 {